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Creating A Portable Web Server

Fleur Stephens Have you ever wanted to try your hand at developing a website in WordPress but you don’t have access to a web server? Would you like to play with multiple websites and WordPress themes without breaking your site?.… Continue Reading…

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Your Favourite Linux Distributions

Hugh Macdonald I’ve always been fascinated by Linux. When I was about fourteen or fifteen, in my quest to expand my computing knowledge, I attempted to install it for the first time. I think back then it was Red Hat… Continue Reading…

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Member Tips and Tricks: Top Linux Utilities

John Nelson Editor’s note: John Nelson has provided this list of common applications and utilities that you can download and use in your Linux distribution of choice. Some distributions will come with many of these already pre-installed. For any that… Continue Reading…

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NBN upgrades explained: how will they make internet speeds faster?

Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne The federal government has announced a A$3.5 billion upgrade to the National Broadband Network (NBN) that will grant two million households on-demand access to faster fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) internet by 2023. Reports from the ABC… Continue Reading…

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Google News favours mainstream media. Even if it pays for Australian content, will local outlets fall further behind?

Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology Google’s role in delivering audiences to news outlets has been under scrutiny of late. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s initiative to redirect advertising revenue from Google and Facebook to news publishers has led… Continue Reading…

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Member Linux Stories

Editor: In response to my questions of a) What is your favourite Linux distro?  b) What is it about this particular distro that makes it your favourite? and c) What originally made you start using Linux and/or why would you… Continue Reading…

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